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Bezig met laden... The MANIAC (editie 2023)door BenjamÃn Labatut (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "Un verdor terrible" me pareciò excelente, y un milagro. Un milagro por ser esa mezcla de crónica, novela, que difuminaba los lÃmites de la ficción, y encima lograba tratar conceptos sobre matemática y fÃsica de una manera interesantÃsima. No solo consiguiendo que el lector los entienda (no soy ningún prodigio en esas materias), sino que le fascine. En fin, que "Un verdor..." fue de mis libros preferidos de ese año, y he aqui que viene Labatut de nuevo a maravillarme. MANIAC es más largo, tiene más la ambición de una novela, pero trata los mismos temas sobre el progreso, la locura, la ciencia y el destino incierto de la humanidad. "Para el progreso no hay cura" dice en el mejor y mà s largo segmento de este libro, una idea aterradora que creo que encapsula el sentimiento que intenta transmitir toda la novela. Mi único pero, serÃa que la última sección (que igual es corta) no logra ser tan interesante como todo lo anterior, pero aún asà no puedo ponerle menos de 5 estrellas por lo bien (y lo mal) que la pasé. Me declaro fan de Labatut, ahora voy a ir a buscar su trabajo anterior y a esperar con ansias lo que siga. ( ) I liked it, but it was forgettable. It is more of a concept than a traditional novel, with many parts that loosely follow the themes of math, early computer science, AI and machine learning. My favourite part was the one about John von Neumann, which is the main part of the novel. The intro and the one at the end were just there to set up and complete the scene. At times it felt like I was reading a documentary film script, with all those characters close to Neumann talking about him from their perspective. It felt strange to read fictionalized accounts of so many real people. I guess that's the part of the charm, but even though the topic was interesting I wasn't feeling very invested in it. Brilliant book. Crazy men effecting their madness upon us. The slow drive from early 20th century Czechoslovakia mathematicians to AI is an amazing feat of literature. The weaving of fiction and non-fiction remarkable and compelling. I was moved to watch the documentary AlphaGo after finishing this book and I found it so moving and disturbing. We are in such a hurry to create these machines that we lose sight of why we play a game, why we form societies, why we are human. Excellent book. Presages a transfer of power to machine life. Beginning with a factionalized but accurate biography of John Von Nueman. He is presented as the ultimate example of a human mathematical prodigy. He grasps instantly what it took other great mathematicians weeks to understand. At the end of his life in the fifties he becomes obsessed with the idea of developing a machine life that will evolve. Although he is responsible for developing the first large scale mechanical computer in order to facilitate development of the hydrogen bomb he fails at his attempt to design his machine that will evolve. The book then moves ahead half a century to tell the story of the computer that became the best Go player on the world. Out achieved its preeminence by learning and evolving. The reader is left to wonder what next. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:From one of contemporary literatureâ??s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI BenjamÃn Labatutâ??s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Timesâ?? Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake. The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control. A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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